Former Army Ranger John Martinko, 36, said he had a difficult time adjusting back to civilian life after seven combat deployments.

“I was used to going 1,000 miles per hour, now I’m moving at a snail’s pace each day. The Wall Street environment and the pace is what I need each day to sustain myself,” he told Adams. “I’m going to go as far as saying Wall Street saved my life.”

Martinko now works on the equities desk alongside his fellow veterans.

“We’re doing it almost like we’re operating in the streets of Iraq or out in the mountain ranges of Afghanistan,” Robert Terhune, who served three tours of duty with the 82nd Airborne Division, told Adams. “I got 10 concussions, a floating bone in my foot, arthritis in my ankle, my knee, my lower back. A torn meniscus in my knee and a herniated disc in my back.”